Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff (Make)
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (748 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1680450387 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 214 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Best First Tinkering Book!" according to Bryce E Johnson. What a great book! Fantastic activities with cheap and easy to obtain materials. These projects can probably be built almost anywhere on Earth (that has a small market nearby) - the materials are so simple and universal. And the learning they provide is awesome! Instructions were super clear, and there are these thoughtful essays on tinkering and inquiry based learning scattered throughout the book that are brilliant and inspirational. This is more than a book with a collection of tinkering activities, its really a book about how to create a tinkerin. Disappointed with quality of the physical book but good ideas that I will use Quality of the print is horrible, interior book design very cheapo, and tons of typos. I expected more from Make magazine. But the ideas are good.. "and he and his father have had a great deal of fun with it" according to mockingbird. My grandson asked me for this for Christmas, and he and his father have had a great deal of fun with it.
This book is terrific! The philosophy couldn't have been better stated. Curt writes beautifully; it's very readable and his overall message is indisputably valuable, especially in these times of electronic gadgets. As the book points out, in recent years we find our kids can't even tie their shoes! Thus, in order to truly learn science, they need access to these sorts of hands-on opportunities more than ever. So hooray for the very valuable notion of community science workshops, such as have been pioneered in California!
How can you consistently pull off hands-on tinkering with kids? How do you deal with questions that you can't answer? How do you know if tinkering kids are learning anything or not? Is there a line between fooling around with real stuff and learning?The idea of learning through tinkering is not so radical. Make: Tinkering (Kids Learn by Making Stuff) lets you discover how, why--and even what it is--to tinker and tinker well. From the dawn of time, whenever humanity has wanted to know more, we have achieved it most effectively by getting our hands dirty and making careful observations of real stuff. Author Curt Gabrielson draws on more than 20 years of experien